The Mystery of Things

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Milestone Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/milestone-evidence-for-anyons-a-third-kingdom-of-particles-20200512/

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Could humans have contaminated Mars with life?

Humanity has sent spacecraft and landers to the Red Planet since the space age began. Now, we know which microbes might have survived the tr

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The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion?

The long read: A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist. Could they be right?

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Wszystko mija, nawet najdłuższa żmija

("Everything passes, even the longest of vipers")

Stanisław Jerzy Lec

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Murmuration...

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There do not exist two distinct and separate types of mind, one for the arts and humanities, the other for the sciences… You must possess both intuition and imagination to be creative in the sciences as well as the arts… There is science in all good poetry and vice versa.

Albert Rosenfeld, The Creative Experience: Why and How Do We Create?

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Pōwehi: “embellished dark source of unending creation."

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1. Be patient. No matter what. 2. Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him. 3. Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you. 4. Expand your sense of the possible. 5. Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change. 6. Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself. 7. Tolerate ambiguity. 8. Laugh at yourself frequently. 9. Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right. 10. Never forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong. 11. Give up blood sports. 12. Remember that your life belongs to others as well. Don’t risk it frivolously. 13. Never lie to anyone for any reason. (Lies of omission are sometimes exempt.) 14. Learn the needs of those around you and respect them. 15. Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that. 16. Reduce your use of the first personal pronoun. 17. Praise at least as often as you disparage. 18. Admit your errors freely and soon. 19. Become less suspicious of joy. 20. Understand humility. 21. Remember that love forgives everything. 22. Foster dignity. 23. Live memorably. 24. Love yourself. 25. Endure.

The 25 Principles of Adult Behaviour, John Perry Barlow

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Inner Turmoil by Tung Ming-Chin

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Becoming.

by Jan van IJken. I want this playing on loop on my gravestone.

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Stone Artist Akie

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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

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This Incredible Map Shows the Literal Meaning of Every Country's Name

What does the name of your country really mean?

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Now the flesh arranges itself differently. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black. Pinpoints of light swell, sparkle, burst and shrivel within it, countless as stars. Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. It transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and I see despair coming towards me like famine. To feel that empty again, again. I listen to my heart, wave upon wave, salty and red, continuing on and on, marking time.

The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Attwood

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A play in one act